[2019]DLHC16515 • June 6, 2019 • High Court
ANTHONY ATTA POKU vs. KOJO DORBOR & 2 ORS
The plaintiff, Anthony Atta Poku, claimed title to Plot No. 626, East Legon Residential Area, Accra, based on a lease granted by the Government of Ghana through the Lands Commission in 1988. He alleged trespass by the defendants who erected structures on the land without authority. The 3rd defendant claimed title through his late mother, who purportedly acquired the land from a private individual before her death in 1995, and that he had been in possession since then, with the 1st defendant as his caretaker. The plaintiff denied the 3rd defendant's claim, asserting the land is State land and the 3rd defendant's presence was trespass.
read moreJUDGMENT Plaintiffs’ Case By an amended writ of summons issued on 18th July 2016, the plaintiff claimed the following reliefs against the defendants: i. Declaration of title to plot No. 626, East Legon Residential Area, Accra in favour of the plaintiff herein. ii. Damages for trespass against each of the defendants. iii. Recovery of possession of plot No. 626 aforesaid from the defendants to the plaintiff. iv. Demolition of all structures on the land by the defendants at the cost of the defendants. v. Perpetual injunction against the defendants, their agents and servants as well as their assigns and successors. vi. Any other relief deemed fit by this honourable court. It is the plaintiff’s case that in the year 1988, after an application he had made to the Lands Commission for a parcel of land was approved, the Government of Ghana through the Lands Commission granted a lease covering an approximate area of 0.47 of an acre over the land in dispute in his favour. He ...